Signed by Author 1851494979 This STATED FIRST EDITION is a FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR in FINE condition. The copyright page states "First Edition" at bottom over ISBN: , 2005. Book is inscribed by author "For Liddy Thompson All best wishes from Ellie December 2005" in blue marker on half-title page. Book is in FINE condition with navy blue cloth binding with bold silver gilt lettering on spine. Book's spine tips and corners are true with binding and insides tight, bright, clean and unmarked. NO previous owner's or library markings. Right FEP to page IX has slightly uncut pages on edge's top and bottoms as they appear to have stuck from printer otherwise book is Fine. DW is covered by Brodart also in FINE condition. DW's glossy cover has sepia toned photo of elaborately ornate wall with two candle-abras surrounding portrait of Pauline Palmer. Lettering in bold beige on front cover and dark brown spine with bold white lettering. DW's spine tips and corners are very lightly bumped with mild creasing along top edge otherwise Fine. Book is illustrated throughout with sepia, black & white and color photos and illustrations. Hardcover, 8.25" x 10.5", 332pp. Bookseller Inventory # 002610

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Three generations of the Potter Palmer family of Chicago emerge from the letters of Pauline, as the young bride of Potter Palmer II writes to her mother Mabel Blake Kohlsaat, wife of newspaper owner, Herman H. Kohlsaat.

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